Zentimo 7 day giveaway

Zentimo is a USB device manager. The company is giving away free licenses between 11/1 - 11/7

Look here:

http://zentimo.com/blog/license-giveaway-december2010/

 

Thx, downloaded it and got a lisence. I will use it to scan USB with AV on my wife's laptop

 

Wasn't aware of this application. I enjoy the fact that it allows to to bound a given letter to a specific USB device. This is great, considering that Windows seems to forget which letters it assigns to devices.

At least, I'm hoping that's what this means

Thanks for news Victek123

 

Your welcome! I'm surprised there isn't more interest in Zentimo. First of all it free Then there's the "one click" usb stop & remove feature which made "USB Safely Remove" popular. Zentimo also has the ability to assign appropriate icons to devices, so a webcam looks like a webcam, etc, and to also hide devices which don't need to be displayed such as hubs.

 

Zentimo

I love the fact that Zentimo can also integrate with TrueCrypt. You can easily mount TrueCrypt volumes right from system tray.

 

to zentimo

Weird name... USB Safely Remove was more self-explanatory, but I've switched to Z now because of TrueCrypt integration and because I like the one click explorer functionality for USB that Zentimo provides and the graphical representation of available free space from the tray menu. Very convenient.

 

Don't wish to be picky but USB Safely Remove can do both these things too!

 

Yes, but USB Safely Remove is not being given away for free at the moment

Note: the giveaway ends on Dec 7, so get it or forget it...

 

@ Victek123

Thanks for the news & to Zentimo

Never heard of it until you posted, looks very useful

 

But, unlike Zentimo, it won't allow to bound a letter to a specific device. This is a great feature provided by Zentimo.

 

You can bind devices to specific letters in Windows ...
Mrk

 

Yes, but I meant that it allows a person to bound it, as in stick it to that specific device.

Windows forgets what letters it assigns from time to time. AFAIK, there's no way of making it not forget, is there?

 

Actually USB Safely Remove does give you the option to assign a specific letter to a specific device. I used it extensively until switching to Zentimo. The differences I notice between the two are as follows:

1. USB Safely Remove tray menu let's you eject the device whereas Zentimo let's you eject it, open it in explorer (or alternative), or open a 'Quick Launch Menu' (a feature I haven't used but apparently it lets you add and launch portable and other apps off the USB device).

2. Zentimo's tray menu displays a graphical bar for each device that shows full they are at a glance. USB Safely Remove does not.

3. Zentimo integrates with TrueCrypt, USB Safely Remove does not.

4. Zentimo includes a very nice 'Speed Test Wizard' for testing device speeds. USB Safely Remove does not have this feature. [Note: You can use an external program such as HD_Speed to speed test USB and other devices, but the Zentimo Speed Test Wizard is very nice and convenient.]

FWIW: I did not switch to Zentimo until v1.1.4 beta because I found the user interface (tray menu) of the earlier releases to be cluttered, confusing and loaded with features I didn't think I needed. However, I kept trying it on my secondary computer and as I got used to it and as they improved it with updates I realized I was missing those extra features on my laptop that had USB Safely Remove v4.3 installed, so I made the switch last week.

 

Thanks, I will try it out.